{"id":7681,"date":"2025-06-18T01:17:58","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T05:17:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/irishdextercattlemen.com\/staging\/?p=6252"},"modified":"2025-06-23T14:59:22","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T18:59:22","slug":"the-homestead-act-of-1862","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irishdextercattlemen.com\/staging\/the-homestead-act-of-1862\/","title":{"rendered":"The Homestead Act of 1862"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.senate.gov\/artandhistory\/history\/common\/civil_war\/Homestead_Act.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noreferrer noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/irishdextercattlemen.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Homestead-Act.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6253\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-76847fcab64d9fe2116ddc04d04bdd5a\">o help develop the American West and spur economic growth, Congress passed the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.senate.gov\/artandhistory\/history\/common\/image\/Homestead_Act.htm\">Homestead Act of 1862<\/a>, which provided 160 acres of federal land to anyone who agreed to farm the land.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.senate.gov\/artandhistory\/history\/common\/civil_war\/Homestead_Act.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">READ MORE<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>o help develop the American West and spur economic growth, Congress passed the\u00a0Homestead Act of 1862, which provided 160 acres of federal land to anyone who agreed to farm the land.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":7803,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[362],"tags":[20,301],"class_list":["post-7681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-homesteading","tag-historical","tag-homesteading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/irishdextercattlemen.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/irishdextercattlemen.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/irishdextercattlemen.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irishdextercattlemen.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irishdextercattlemen.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/irishdextercattlemen.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irishdextercattlemen.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/irishdextercattlemen.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irishdextercattlemen.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irishdextercattlemen.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}